Any way to modify music search terms?

General Discussions
1

I am attempting to add the new Beyoncé album Lemonade to my library and it refuses to be matched correctly.

Is there a reason we cannot manually specify the search terms as with Movie or Television content? Also is there some information or a log that I can provide so that this feature can be improved in the future? Plex/Gracenote keeps trying to match it with her 2009 album “I am… Sasha Fierce”

2

How are the files named?
How are they stored in folders? How are these folders named?
Do the files have internal metadata? Are they complete?
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1093611/#Comment_1093611

3

Files are named:

[track num] [track name].mp3

Path is:

Music/[Artist]/[Album]

Yes the internal meta data is there and complete. It has artist, title, album and year

4

@nicotine said:
Files are named:

[track num] [track name].mp3

Path is:

Music/[Artist]/[Album]

Yes the internal meta data is there and complete. It has artist, title, album and year

Sorry, that is not enough to make the files behave like they are part of an album (or to make Plex distinguish them from other albums).
You need:

  • Tracknumber
  • Trackartist (this is the normal ‘Artist’)
  • Tracktitle
  • Albumartist
  • Albumtitle
  • release year

The last 3 must be set identically in every track/file of the album.

In particularly difficult naming situations (like e.g. the Album titles of Adele which are just numbers) the following folder schema is recommended.

Music /
   Albumartist /
      Albumartist - Albumtitle (year) /
         1. trackartist - tracktitle.mp3
         2. trackartist - tracktitle.mp3
         ...

Yes, it is redundant. But sometimes it is needed so the album title is not mistaken for a disc number or a release year.
Follow my link above for more info on multi-disc albums and compilations.

After you changed metatags and file/folder names, perform the Plex Dance or Plex won’t read all of the changed data.

5

@OttoKerner said:

@nicotine said:
Files are named:

[track num] [track name].mp3

Path is:

Music/[Artist]/[Album]

Yes the internal meta data is there and complete. It has artist, title, album and year

Sorry, that is not enough to make the files behave like they are part of an album (or to make Plex distinguish them from other albums).
You need:

  • Tracknumber
  • Trackartist (this is the normal ‘Artist’)
  • Tracktitle
  • Albumartist
  • Albumtitle
  • release year

The last 3 must be set identically in every track/file of the album.

In particularly difficult naming situations (like e.g. the Album titles of Adele which are just numbers) the following folder schema is recommended.

Music /
   Albumartist /
      Albumartist - Albumtitle (year) /
         1. trackartist - tracktitle.mp3
         2. trackartist - tracktitle.mp3
         ...

Yes, it is redundant. But sometimes it is needed so the album title is not mistaken für a disc number or a release year.
Follow my link above for more info on multi-disc albums and compilations.

After you changed metatags and file/folder names, perform the Plex Dance or Plex won’t read all of the changed data.

Thanks I think it was the Album Artist that was missing